Here’s the holy grail: layout tools that are easy to use and don’t require a line of code. Come and see strengths and weaknesses of the available layout solutions, along with real world examples of fulfilling client requests.

This session is presented from a site-builder’s perspective, so will not be discussing file templating, headless Drupal, and other code-intensive solutions.

Although this is a high-level survey, we will be mixing in real world examples and mini-demos in order to give site builders viewing the session concrete examples of how complicated requests from clients can be satisfied with zero lines of code written.

Systems that will be discussed:

• Panels (Everywhere)
• Display Suite
• Context/blocks
• Masonry and other javascript automatic layouting libraries

We will conclude by discussing the latest developments in layouting tools for Drupal 8, and finish with an educated guess on the most future-proof solutions for Drupal 7.

This session is based on material developed for a series of blog posts, the first of which may be found here: http://www.bluespark.com/blog/thinking-outside-block-drupal-layout-tools...